Timothy Jerome Kehoe (born June 13, 1953) is an American economist and professor at the University of Minnesota.

[2] He obtained his undergraduate degree from Providence College in 1975 and his Ph.D. in economics from Yale University in 1979.

[3] He is a member of the board of trustees and the scientific council at the IMDEA Social Sciences Institute.

His thesis committee was composed of Herbert E. Scarf as the supervisor, Andreu Mas-Colell as the co-supervisor, and Donald J.

Other research topics vary from gambling and debt crises, policy reform, macroeconomic effects of medicare, opportunity costs of entrepreneurs in international trade, and quantitative trade models, etc.

Geographically, his research has spanned over various countries in different continents, such as the United States, Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Spain, and China, etc.